It turns out we have been lied to… and about a national treasure no less.

Cornish pasties are not from Cornwall, as the name suggests, but were in fact developed in London, 250 miles away from their namesake county.

Stories of miners having the pasties for their lunch and using the crust to prevent their dirty hands from messing up the meal are true, but they aren’t the same as the pasties we eat today, according to food writer Peter Brears.

He says that while the pasties developed in London drew inspiration from those found in Cornwall in the 1870s, they are vastly different in many ways.

These new pasties, which proved extremely popular in the urban middle classes, stood the test of time and soon became the ‘Cornish’ pasties we all know and love today.